I'll be at Leyton Orient next season! Russell Slade plays down talk of a move to West Brom

I'M STAYING: Russell Slade has insisted he will be at Leyton Orient next season [GETTY]

And he insists he'll be at Leyton Orient next season no matter what happens in Sunday's League One play-off final against Rotherham.

Slade is a shock name in the frame for the Baggies job after leading Orient to the brink of ending their 32-year absence from the second tier.

Slade said: "It's nice to be linked to a Premier League club when you are a League One manager and be recognised for the work we have done on no money.

"But the total focus is my football club. I have got a two year deal here.

"The great thing about this club - and why it's not always about the pounds and pence - is I am able to manage this football club and put my stamp on it.

FOCUSED: Slade made it clear he is not thinking about the vacancy at the Hawthorns [GETTY]

“It's nice to be linked to a Premier League club when you are a League One manager and be recognised for the work we have done on no money but the total focus is my football club”

Russell Slade

"We don't have too many board meetings, I think I've had one in four-and-a-half years.

"The chairman Barry Hearn speaks to me on the phone once a week we get on very well and we'll speak when he comes into the club or on match days when we are at home.

"I have a great relationship with the chief executive and within the financial constraints I'm able to run my club the way Russell Slade wants to run it with his staff and players and try to move it forward and improve the club.

"I think I have done that in the time I have been here.

"There is such a lot to say for that, that I am able to do that the way the game is today and I'm thankful for that.

"I'd be lying if I said that one day I don't want to manage at the highest possible level but certainly in the short term I want to be manager in the Championship with this football club."